Shin Seok Jeong

Shin Seok-jung was a Korean poet. He was born in 1907 in Buan, North Jeolla Province. After graduating from Buan public school, he went to Seoul and studied Buddhist texts for about a year in Gangwon Province, the predecessor of Dongguk University. In 1931, he began his career as a member of the 'Simunhak'(, The meaning of 'poetic literature', a monthly magazine specializing in poetry). He established a unique position by publishing an idyllic poetry. He served as a schoolteacher at Buan Middle School and Jeonju High School. In July 1976, Shin Seok-Jeong's Tombstone was constructed in Jeonju Deokjin Park.

Works list

 * Candlelight (1939)
 * Flowering Shrubs (1946)
 * A Sad Pastoral (1947)
 * Glacier (1956)
 * Do You Know That Faraway Land? (2020)